A word about provision in our lives: Where God guides, He provides .   I like this little rhyme, and it actually connects to a Scripture: Isaiah 58:11.   The Bible details it more specifically, and the little saying is the short-and-sweet version of God's full truth: The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.   You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail .  ~Isaiah 58:11 Where God guides, He provides .   We don't have to be rich to follow God and live out His plans for us.  And--we probably won't be.   But-- if and when God gives us his plan...He will provide for us to live it out.  You'll never guess how.  And neither will I.  Be cause God's ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts ( Isaiah 55:8 ).   But His will is perfect, and all-encompassing of our needs. Has the Lord let us know w...

Genesis Chapter 4 holds many things, including the initial creations of the next  generation of man. There is love...and there is the miracle of life .  Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”  ( 2)  Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.  ~Genesis 4:1-2 But  Genesis Chapter 4  also contains sin, jealousy, and the abhorration of the first  murder .  Even with (only) the third and fourth humans ever created , (Cain and Abel)...there came sin, and there was (even) murder :  Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.  ( 3)  In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord .  ( 4)  And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,  ( 5)  but on Cain and...